September 2007 Archives

Fall 2007 Schedule

Date    Chapters Content
9/20    1,2,3 Introduction, requirements, grading, purpose, History of Greek, Alphabet, Pronunciation
9/27    4 Punctuation, Syllabification
10/4    5,6 Nouns – 1st and 2nd declension, Nominative and Accusative cases, the definite article
10/11    7 Genitive and Dative cases
10/18    8 Prepositions
10/25    9 Adjectives / Review for Exam
11/1    Mid-term Exam
11/8    10 3rd declension nouns
11/15    11 1st and 2nd personal pronouns
11/22    ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΙΑ – no class
11/29    12 3rd personal pronouns
12/6    13 Demonstrative pronouns
12/13    14 Relative pronouns / Review for Exam
12/20    Final Exam

Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Δρυμὸς Ἀέρος on Sep 07, 2007

Semester 1, Lecture 1: Introduction and Alphabet

Welcome to Basic Biblical Greek Class

  • Classroom protocol
    • Everything to please the Lord
    • Greetings: “χαῖρε μαθηταί” and “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”
    • Raise your hand to speak
    • You will be addressed by your Greek names
    • The teacher may be addressed as “Διδάσκαλος”
    • Please ask any relevant questions, which is a good seque to:
  • Grades – Homeschool students earn a grade – 3 components
    1. Class Participation (20%) – includes your knowledge of material as represented by responding to questions in class, reading out loud, translation, etc.
    2. Weekly Quizzes (40%) – graded and reviewed at the beginning of the following class
      • Mainly material from Mounce
      • Also material in covered in class which is not in the text
    3. 2 Exams per semester (mid-term and final) (40%)
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Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Δρυμὸς Ἀέρος on Sep 21, 2007

Listen to Dr. Mounce

Here he reads the entire Greek passage from 1st John for Chapter 4.

You must have the Quicktime Plugin from Apple installed. Once you do, click on the play button the in the Player window. You will find other tools and helps at Dr. Mounce’s site, Teknia.com.

NOTE: You will notice that Dr. Mounce pronounces his omicrons like ‘o’ as in ‘not,’ whereas your Διδάσκαλος pronounces them like ‘o’ as in ‘obey.’ This is an ongoing debate among Greek scholars.

Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Δρυμὸς Ἀέρος on Sep 22, 2007

Semester 1, Lecture 2: Punctuation and Syllabification

“χαῖρε μαθηταί” “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”

Review and Addenda

  • Questions on chapters 1-3, Alphabet, Vowels, Consonants, Square of Stops, etc.
    • Smyth on Pronuncation
    • Why is the square of stops important?
    • It helps us to understand part of the mechanics of language
    • It enables us to make sense of morphological (derivative) changes of the verb later on
  • Transliteration – What it is (changing letters), examples
  • Written Greek: no spaces, punctuation, diacritical marks (accents, breathings) in original MSS (manuscripts)
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Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Δρυμὸς Ἀέρος on Sep 28, 2007